196.Quotes On Men-Part 16
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.." -Henry Louis Mencken-
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work;almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.".-Henry Louis Mencken
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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.".-Herbert Spencer-
"Men are blind in their own cause.".-Heywood Broun-
"Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.".-Isidore Ducasse Comte De Lautreamont-
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"Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?".-Karen Horney-
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.".-Katharine Hepburn-
"Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.".-Kwame Nkrumah-
"Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.".-Lincoln Steffens-
"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.".-Lord George Byron-
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.".-Louis D. Brandeis-
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"The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.".-Lyndon B. Johnson-
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.".-Nadine Gordimer-
"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.".-Napoleon Hill-
"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.".-Norman Cousins-
"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.".-Oliver Cromwell-
"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create;how to waste, but not to build;how to kill men, but not how to save them;how to die, but seldom how to live.".-Omar Nelson Bradley-
"To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Neglect of appearance becomes men.".-Ovid-
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.".-Plato-
"Fear makes men believe the worst.".-Quintus Curtius Rufus-
"Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful;seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?".-Vincent Van Gogh-
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